The game has become a real alternate world-Chapter 729 - 411: Frontline

United Military Camp Tent.

It's less than 20 kilometers from the frontline, and in the vast military camp, the area with the largest footprint is the wounded soldiers' camp.

A constant stream of wounded soldiers from various races is transported here from the frontline for treatment.

Within the wounded soldiers' camp, there's also a tent marked with the Holy Light Church emblem visible.

The entire camp is filled with a large number of priests providing both medical treatment and psychological comfort.

It can be seen that the number of these priests exceeds what the Holy Light Church within the Cohen Kingdom can provide.

There is also a large presence of Holy Knights and church troops stationed here.

At this moment, less than a kilometer from the camp, a small-scale skirmish is occurring.

A Night Watcher sentry fired the crossbow arrow from his hand, killing a rodent that seemed to be the squad leader as it fled into a pit.

"This should be the last one; no wonder they're the leader, they run the fastest too."

Beside him, a male Holy Knight dressed in light armor with the Holy Light Church emblem, holding a warhammer, nodded.

"That's right, clean up the battlefield, burn these rodents' corpses, sprinkle some holy ash."

With that, a few priests behind him and a mixed group of soldiers began cleaning the battlefield.

A soldier captain picked up the rodent's weapon from the corpse.

It was a dagger that looked quite well-made, observing the dagger, the captain's brow furrowed.

The Holy Knight said, "These rodents' equipment is getting better, even the harassment units are equipped with fine weapons."

"Are they learning? It's a bit terrifying," the captain couldn't help but express worry.

They've been at war with the rodents for almost half a year, from a defeated retreat to regrouping and holding their ground.

At the current stage, they've even gathered a United Army to counterattack, pulling back the defeated trend.

Yet in just this short half year, initially, these rodents were using all sorts of crude homemade weapons.

With even less destructive power than farming tools.

They could be said to have witnessed firsthand the iteration and upgrade of these rodents' weapons.

Currently, some mildly elite units are already equipped with not very exquisite standardized weapons.

Although these weapons show some flaws, you must consider it's only been half a year.

If it's because these rodents have started learning to master forging techniques and knowledge, it would be overwhelmingly terrifying.

And why did the rodents not learn before?

"These issues shouldn't be our concern, the generals will discuss suitable countermeasures," the Holy Knight said.

The nearby captain could only nod in agreement.

Their worries didn't hold much significance, the higher-ups had already known about these issues, and perhaps even more, possibly pondering over countermeasures for a while.

"These digging rodents are really annoying, looks like this command camp will have to relocate soon."

"It's inevitable, with the frontline's stalemate, the command camp has been here for over a month, the rodents have long identified this location.

Recent harassment has increased, can only be more vigilant and patrol frequently."

During direct confrontation, the number of rodents is overwhelmingly high, and the more the rodents, the higher the morale, making it difficult to crush their morale and gain the upper hand.

Once stalemate ensues, the rodents' harassment becomes incessant.

As they were chatting, the Night Watcher greeted them while leaping through the forest and leaving.

Watching the departing Night Watcher.

The Holy Knight couldn't help but say, "Sometimes I really wonder if they're made of iron; is that Wabu? I recall this morning's rodent attack was discovered by him."

The captain beside couldn't help but nod and say, "Yes, he's been patrolling most of the day, and has already been involved in three such skirmishes.

The energy of these Night Watchers is truly terrifying, yet it's unavoidable; these rodents move too stealthily, it's hard to detect them unless they pop out of the ground, only the Night Watchers' reconnaissance capabilities thoroughly suppress them."

"Without such capability, perhaps they wouldn't deserve to be dubbed as saviors of the world," the Holy Knight muttered.

Upon hearing this, the captain couldn't resist crouching closer to ask quietly, "Is the rumor true? About world destruction…"

The Holy Knight glanced at him and gently nodded, "Just sinister enemies invading; we need to unite and resist, or else…"

The words weren't absolute, but the intent was implicitly conveyed.

The captain received affirming news, and wore a troubled expression.

As they fought alongside the Night Watchers and further understood them, they swiftly acquired information from other continents.

Rumors of the world falling into crisis had long circulated within the troops.

Such matters are pointless to conceal.

...

Wounded Soldiers' Camp.

The leader of this Holy Light unit, a priest dressed in heavy armor, is attending to a wounded soldier.

Attached to his waist is a massive, exaggerated nail hammer, while his left hand holds open a book with a metal cover.

From the book he channels Holy Light, applying healing to the wounded within the tent, a gentle wave of Holy Light radiates outward.

The once wailing wounded involuntarily close their eyes, their expressions relax, and even fall asleep amidst pains.

"Saint Rock Bishop, General Sweet requests your presence at the meeting," a messenger walks in.

Named Saint Rock, the bishop nods, following the messenger into the tent.

The center of the frontline command camp.

Entering the tent.

Saint Rock glances around at the crowd, then his gaze falls upon a young unfamiliar male.

Impossible not to notice him; the young male's back bears a large sword with a sapphire-like scabbard floating.

Observing his appearance, he immediately identifies the man's identity.

He nods amicably toward him, yet they don't converse.

Kana reciprocates the kindness.

After all, the Holy Light Church and Night Watchers have deep cooperative communication, though it's a church within a specific kingdom.

Yet they share mutual understanding.

As the war progresses, information has already been conveyed by Night Watchers to the Holy Light Church headquarters.

The rodent outbreak has lasted half a year, the crisis occurring on this continent has long spread worldwide.

However, due to information transmission reasons, some forces have incomplete information, even stuck in preliminary stages.

With the help of Night Watchers, the Holy Light Church headquarters nearly acquires real-time war information from this continent.

The Holy Light Church headquarters sharply perceives this as an opportunity, originally their faith expansion on this continent was extremely limited.

Only some coastal cities with modest churches.

Now is an unprecedented opportunity.

Hence, a supporting Holy Light unit quickly assembled.

But these units divided into two groups, the vanguard secretly followed Night Watchers' merchant ships via their channels to swiftly reach here for medical rescue and frontline support actions.

Meanwhile, carrying out missionary work.

Crises like these sweeping across the continent inherently need them, let alone a righteous external sinister race war.

More major forces are en route via the normal paths, and the Holy Light Church initiated a joint meeting, hoping other forces can provide some resources.

The amount of resources obtained is uncertain, given everyone has their own matters to attend to.